Yael Brotman and Adrian Fish @ Loop Gallery (May 2 - 24) May 2, 2009

Loop Gallery is pleased to announce exhibitions by Loop Gallery members Adrian Fish entitled The North York Project (Child is Father of the Man) and Yael Brotman entitled The Mountain in Our Living Room.

Adrian Fish’s exhibition The North York Project (Child is Father of the Man) documents the mostly recreational environments that are synonymous with Fish's childhood experience growing up in the suburb of North York. The photographs consist of five different locations: a swimming pool, an ice rink, a soccer field, and a school - all familiar facets of the vernacular of the suburban environment.

Child is Father of the Man refers to a Wordsworth poem from 1802, pointing out that our childhood experiences constantly underlie our adulthood dispositions. In the spirit of Wordsworth, The North York Project (Child is Father of the Man) documents sites that have psychic weight associated with Fish's childhood experience - an experience that continues to influence his present-day tendencies and propensities.

Adrian Fish is a Toronto- and Halifax-based artist and teacher working in photography. He holds an MFA from York University, as well as accreditation from the Ontario College of Art & Design and Sheridan College. He has exhibited in a number of public institutions, artist-run centres and commercial galleries nationally and internationally.

Yael Brotman’s The Mountain in Our Living Room uses Delacroix’s “Diary of Morocco” as impetus, substituting time for space. Brotman looks back to the world of her teen years in Winnipeg. Her particular focus is upon a mountain that her mother constructed in the living room of their bungalow in the middle of that flat city. Like Delacroix’s annotated sketches, Brotman’s new work incorporates various drawing media (plus photo-based inkjet elements not available to Delacroix) and text, and juxtaposes varying scales. Such an approach to markmaking renders a surreal atmosphere to the drawings that underscores memory and history’s connection to myth.

Yael Brotman's practice includes drawing, painting and printmaking. Brotman has exhibited in public galleries across Canada (from St. John's NF to Dawson City YK), as well as at commercial galleries and artist-run centres. Her work has been reviewed in newspapers and magazines. Brotman has received grants from the Ontario Arts Council and the Canada Council for the Arts. Her work is represented in numerous private and corporate collections. In June 2009 she is scheduled to exhibit and lecture in China, for which she received a supporting pilot National and International Touring and Residencies Grant from the Ontario Arts Council.

Please join the artists in celebrating the opening reception on Saturday May 2nd from 2-5 pm.

The exhibition runs from May 2 - 24, 2009.

Gallery Hours are Wed-Sat 1-5pm and Sun 1-4pm.

Official Website: http://www.loopgallery.ca